Kasieta says the school is retaliating for a racial discrimination complaint that Ross -- who's black - filed against the campus.

The attorney also made the same claim concerning another black administrator who left. Ross headed the College of Letters and Sciences until last April, when an audit questioned his school credit card bills.

Ross was demoted to a professor's post, which he still holds.

In his racial complaint, he claims Whitewater has subjected him to greater scrutiny than other administrators who are white. And he said former chancellor Martha Saunders agreed to cover up the audit's findings if he agreed to quit.

The school says Ross is wrong on both counts. Saunders, meanwhile, left Whitewater last month to become the new president at Southern Mississippi.